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2. Lesson 17 2 Kings 8:7-15,25-9:37 2 Chron 22:1-9

4. Kingdom Relationships  JUDAH  Jehoshaphat  Jehoram  Ahaziah  Athaliah  ISRAEL  Ahab – Jezebel Ahaziah Jehoram Athaliah Jehu

5. Ahaziah  Son of Jehoram (very wicked)  Youngest son Others killed by Philistines and Arabians  Mother was Athaliah Daughter of Ahab and Jezebel  Jehoram (king of Israel) Ahaziah’s uncle  22 years old  Reigned one year – very wicked

6. Elisha Meets with Hazael  Elisha went to Damascus to meet Ben-Hadad, king of Syria  Ben-Hadad was sick  He sent Hazael to meet Elisha Forty camel-loads of goods as a gift “Will Ben-Hadad get well”?  Ben-Hadad would recover  Ben-Hadad would die

7. Elisha Meets with Hazael  Elisha began to weep  2Ki 8:12 And Hazael said, "Why is my lord weeping?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: Their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword; and you will dash their children, and rip open their women with child."

8. Elisha Meets with Hazael  2Ki 8:13 So Hazael said, "But what is your servant-a dog, that he should do this gross thing?" And Elisha answered, "The LORD has shown me that you will become king over Syria.”  Hazael returned to Ben-Hadad and told him he would recover  The next day Hazael killed Ben-Hadad and became king of Syria

9. War against Syria  Jehoram, king of Israel (son of Ahab) joined with Ahaziah, king of Judah, to war against Hazael  Jehoram was wounded  He went to Jezreel to recover  Ahaziah went to visit Jehoram  Armies are still besieging Ramoth- gilead

11. Jehu Anointed  Elisha sent one of the ‘sons of the prophets’ to Ramoth-gilead  He was to take Jehu to an inner room and anoint him king of Israel  Then he was to flee  He found Jehu and anointed him with a message; then he fled

12. Jehu Anointed  2 Ki 9:7-10 'You shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. 'For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab all the males in Israel, both bond and free. 'So I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah. 'The dogs shall eat Jezebel on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her.'"

13. Jehu Kills Jehoram  Jehu left for Jezreel  Jehoram was there; Ahaziah had come to visit  The watchman saw Jehu’s company coming  A horseman was sent to see if he came in peace  Jehu told the horseman to join him

14. Jehu Kills Jehoram  A second horseman is sent; same results  ‘It is like the driving of Jehu’  King Jehoram and King Ahaziah went out to meet Jehu; on the field of Naboth  The kings met Jehu and realized his purpose  As they fled Jehu drew his arrow and killed Jehoram

15. Jehu Kills Jehoram  2 Ki 9:25-26 Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, "Pick him up, and throw him into the tract of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when you and I were riding together behind Ahab his father, that the LORD laid this burden upon him: 'Surely I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,' says the LORD, 'and I will repay you in this plot,' says the LORD. Now therefore, take and throw him on the plot of ground, according to the word of the LORD."

16. Jehu Kills Ahaziah  Ahaziah saw what had happened and fled  Jehu and his men pursued  He, too, was shot while in his chariot  His servant carried him to Jerusalem for burial

17. Jezebel is Killed  Jehu went to Jezreel  Jezebel was waiting for him  ‘Is it peace?’  She was standing in a window; some eunuchs were with her  Jehu told them to throw her down  Jehu and his men trampled over her splattered body

18. Jezebel is Killed  Jehu went in to eat and drink  Then he sent word to bury Jezebel Because she was a king’s daughter  They only found a few body parts

19. Jezebel is Killed  2 Ki 9:36-37 Therefore they came back and told him. And he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; 'and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as refuse on the surface of the field, in the plot at Jezreel, so that they shall not say, "Here lies Jezebel."'"

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